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AMLO All Along

By Pedro GersonNovember 26, 2024
Obradorismo was nationalist austerity governance under the pretense of left-wing populism
Essays & Reviews

No Mushroom Cloud

By Miranda TrimmierFebruary 12, 2016
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. A review of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World
Essays & Reviews

Cap and Trade

By Branden AdamsFebruary 12, 2016
An anthropologist explores the world of matsutake mushroom picking and what it reveals about neoliberal capitalism
Features

The New Inquiry Vol. 49: Interviews

By The New InquiryFebruary 10, 2016
If all writing in public is a form of seduction, then the interview is one of the subtlest come-ons.
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Vol. 76 | July 2022

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The Austerity Kitchen

Bread and Marginalism

By Christine BaumgarthuberFebruary 8, 2016
Without a political revolution, you're toast
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersFebruary 7, 2016
The Super Bowl is the Worst Videogame
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Terrifying Robot Update: Thursday, February 4, 2016

By TNIFebruary 4, 2016
This week we're particularly frightened by a thousands-strong swarm of autonomous oceanic robots capable of both underwater movement and flight
The Beheld

Men's Fashion, Eugenics, and Cultural Capital

By Autumn Whitefield-MadranoFebruary 3, 2016
The suit led to "a remarkable repression of Narcissism among men." So this group of men wanted to get rid of it.
Essays & Reviews

Seconds of Pleasure

By Alfie BownFebruary 2, 2016
Phone games, listicles, masturbation booths, and the return of rational recreation
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It's Hip to Eat Mare

By Chloé RoubertFebruary 1, 2016
One of Paris’s last remaining horse meat butchers discusses the disappearance of his trade
Marginal Utility

Surveillance notes

By Rob HorningJanuary 31, 2016
It's not monolithic
Features

Sunday Reading

By Sunday ReadersJanuary 31, 2016
Gang of a Hundred Masked Refugee Children Reportedly Gather in Sweden to 'Punish' Neo-Nazis
Essays & Reviews

City Hunger

By Monica DattaJanuary 29, 2016
A 15th century book shows the entanglement of architecture and appetite
Essays & Reviews

Bitter Medicine

By Jack KahnJanuary 28, 2016
Using mercury poisoning treatments to 'fix' autism punishes children for bearing the mark of an unhealthy society
Essays & Reviews

Human Nature

By Out of the WoodsJanuary 27, 2016
A new book describing capitalism as an ecological system clarifies the stakes for ending it
Essays & Reviews

Fear of Screens

By Nathan JurgensonJanuary 25, 2016
Why would anyone want to believe that people who are communicating with phones have forgotten what friendship is?

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Bail Bloc 2.0

Our work on immigration, ICE, borders, and detention

Features

Liquid Border

By Annalisa Camilli and Eleanor PaynterAugust 20, 2019
An excerpt from The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli
Features

United States v. Scott Daniel Warren

By LazzJune 27, 2019
The criminalization of humanitarian aid at the border enacts a fantasy of desolate individuation. Scott Warren’s felony trial reiterates the necessity to keep reaching out.
Essays & Reviews

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

By Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia HernandezMay 16, 2018
A recent Supreme Court decision reminds us that the law has no interest in lifting the veil that covers immigration prisons
Essays & Reviews, Features

Border Theories

By Marcos Santiago GonsalezNovember 13, 2017
What would it look like to put a power structure on trial? Interweaving visual narratives of the Mexico–United States border show the uneasy relation between objects and people.
Essays & Reviews

Soft Borders

By Jack GrossSeptember 15, 2017
The soft patriotic trust in Canada's softly administered border is fully compatible with the logic of restriction.
Essays & Reviews

Fash at Sea

By Mohammed Harun ArsalaiSeptember 15, 2017
The end of Defend Europe’s fascistic campaign to block migrants’ boats in the Mediterranean doesn’t mean the threat is over
Essays & Reviews

Operation Streamline

By Brandon ShimodaMay 3, 2017
The border’s dream is for undocumented immigrants to be its most reliable missionaries. But the immigrant who crosses the border is the affirmation of a life that transcends it.
Essays & Reviews

In the Water

By Karla Cornejo VillavicencioJanuary 18, 2017
An immigrant in the water is a story or a lesson, but an immigrant on land is our responsibility--they might become our neighbor
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Cross-Border Operations

By Angela Mitropoulos and Matthew KiemNovember 18, 2015
It is no longer plausible to describe the state’s borders as geographically fixed or the state as distinguishable from capital or “markets.”
Essays & Reviews

Empire Records

By Darryl LiMarch 25, 2015
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
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